A review by tittypete
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

3.0

Oh windy Jared. This guy likes to talk. And not just talk but set up what he's gonna talk about before he starts talking about it. That aside the book isn't a terrible slog. And it is interesting at it's core. Sort of a yin to Guns, Germs and Steel's yang. Whereas the former book was about why societies thrive, this one is about why they fall apart. The falling apart comes from five factors: "climate change, hostile neighbors, collapse of essential trading partners, environmental problems, and the society's response to the forgoing four factors." Most of the time it's because the society won't stop having kids and land it lives on can't support it. And that's the big mega direction we're all heading so humanity's probably going to collapse sooner than later and the ones left will be sad cavemen type rootin' around for food that's not poisoned yet. It's a picker upper. All hail the oncoming void.